Genus Cantharis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Works Cited

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

No Taxon (Series Elateriformia)

Superfamily Elateroidea

Family Cantharidae (Soldier Beetles)

Subfamily Cantharinae

Tribe Cantharini

Genus Cantharis

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

NB: Until fairly recently, the genus was treated in the New World in a very broad sense, to include all the nearctic Cantharini

Explanation of Names

Cantharis Linnaeus 1758

Greek κανθαρισ 'blister beetle'(1)

Numbers

22 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area (all but C. sierrae in the nominate subgenus)(2)

Range

holarctic, incl. much of NA (mostly northern)

Habitat

Typically found on low herbs and shrubs

Works Cited

1.	Composition of scientific words Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.

2.	American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.

Contributed by Cotinis on 3 April, 2004 - 4:22pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 15 May, 2014 - 7:03am

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